Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.

Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be superficial and fleeting… We can only change permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it and making it part of ourselves. That is how we grow.

Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.

...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.

The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.